Molecules & Enzymes
These biomolecules are not polymers.
What are Lipids?
Cells that have no organelles or internal membranes belong to this category.
What are prokaryotes?
This step in the scientific method includes two parts - an educated guess and a prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
The type of cell division that produces two daughter cells that are identical to both each other and the parent cell.
What is mitosis?
Both cell respiration and fermentation start with this molecule.
What is glucose?
The type of molecular bonds found within a water molecule.
What are polar covalent bonds?
These organelles allow plants to make sugar through the process of photosynthesis.
What are chloroplasts?
A hypothesis that has been experimented on many times, but has never been falsified, can be called this.
What is a theory?
These structures, produced by the centrioles, stretch across the cell during mitosis to help separate the chromosomes.
What are spindle fibers?
This process, which occurs in the mitochondria, is the opposite of photosynthesis.
What is cell respiration?
If a protein is heated too much, this happens.
What is denaturation?
A protein-based hormone like insulin is made by this organelle.
What is the rough ER?
This emergent property in biology first appears at the level of the cell.
What is life?
During interphase, the chromosomes are unravelled in the form of loose strands called this.
What are chromatin fibers?
This molecule, made by the mitochondria, is a very important source of energy for most living things.
What is ATP?
DNA is one of these.
What is a nucleic acid?
This type of molecule has a hard time passing through the cell membrane.
What are polar molecules?
What is natural selection?
During anaphase of mitosis, the two copies of each chromosome, called these, are pulled apart to opposite ends of the cell.
What are sister chromatids?
During this phase of photosynthesis, carbon dioxide is captured by a plant cell and used to make sugar.
What are the 'dark reactions'/light-independent reactions/Calvin cycle?
Cell membranes are made of these molecules, which are related to fats.
What are phospholipids?
This term for a type of bulk transport means "a cell eating."
What is phagocytosis?
When animals eat, they convert food into other molecules, a characteristic of living things referred to as this.
What is energy processing or metabolism?
During this cell cycle checkpoint, the cell will self destruct if the DNA is too damaged.
What is the G1 checkpoint?
The reason why animals breathe in oxygen and eat carbohydrates is to provide fuel for these organelles.
What are mitochondria?